You Tube and SL360

I understand that Google has restricted embedding You Tube into SL360. After some experimenting, I am still short on how best to use You Tube (public video not what we have uploaded). In this specific case, the course is Presenter 360. Some questions:

1. is there a difference between embedding a You Tube video and using a hyperlink? Does embedding breach copyrights? If so, is the hyperlink with citations the correct approach?

2. If we use hyperlinks, is there a way to control the video, e.g., is there a way to not see any frontend advertisements, e.g., start video at 25 seconds. Next, is there a way to not show any of the sequential videos that You Tube loads? The forum previously suggested using: http://www.youtube.com/embed/video/video_id?autoplay=1&rel=07start=45 as an example for embedding with some variables. Is there a similar string to have the same outcome with hyperlinks? Sorry for the long question. My brain is probably too fried to see an answer. Thanks for your help.

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2. I have used a website called http://safeyoutube.net/ not to see sequential videos and advertisements. It also lets you customize the video title, background color, length of the video and there is an auto start option. You can also set the time when the video starts.

Regarding #1: When you publish a video to YouTube, you have the choice of whether or not to allow embedding. To me that suggests that it would not be a violation of copyright as the publisher can prevent embedding if they do not want people to embed. But I am not a lawyer. My dad's a lawyer, but that definitely doesn't qualify me to give legal advice.